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Here is my situation: I have an external portable USB hard drive that contains my Kodi install and collections. I have setup kodi following the instructions for a portable installation but when I go to a second machine - ensure that the drive letter is the same & then fire up Kodi using the -p switch, kodi says that it cannot play files and I have to go about setting up the collection again. Is there a way to make Kodi truly portable so that I dont have to do this each time? (before anyone asks, I setup kodi using the instructions and have ensured that the external drive letter is the same on both machines. i also have ensured that both machines have all of the VC++ runtimes needed and am not using any other addons but what comes with the Kodi install.)
anyone know if I can get it so that it doesnt store data in the current user's %appdata%\Roaming\Kodi folder?
Thanks in advance.
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Thanks, but I already did that..
Shortcut properties shows P:\Kodi\Kodi.exe -p Start in is set to P:\Kodi - same thing... Kodi still wants to write to the %appdata% folder of the current user to store data on the library
another thing that i am trying is to have two separate portable drives with Kodi on it... one for TV shows, another for Movies..
so, here is the process...
1: I formatted the first drive and set the drive letter to P:
2: I created P:\Movies folder. I copied some movies to the folder.
3: I run the kodi setup, specify that the install folder is p:\kodi. setup completes and I exit the setup without running kodi.
4: I create a shortcut to Kodi in the root of p: drive. Target: P:\kodi\kodi.exe -p Start In folder = P:\Kodi
5: I launch Kodi from that shortcut and configure Kodi's Movie library to point to p:\Movies & then tell Kodi to scan for updated library.
6: When that is completed, I verify that I can launch one of the movies from the movie library.
7: I exit Kodi
8: I use the system tray icon to eject the USB drive (P: drive)
9: I remove the drive & connect up the second drive.
10: I formatted the second drive and again used the drive letter P: for it.
11: I created the "p:\TV Series" folder and then copy a few TV series to the folder.
12: i then rerun the Kodi setup/install following the same process as last time.
13: I launch Kodi and it shows the icons for the 'Movies' from the other drive and a message that it couldnt play files...
Now, when I go into my %appdata%\Roaming folder, I see a Kodi folder there with some stuff in it. If I exit Kodi and then delete that folde & then restart kodi from the shortcut, it acts as if Kodi is a new install... i can setup Kodi to use the TV folder on P and it will scan and create the icons and such, but again, if I close out, eject he drive and put the movie drive back in, ensuring that its using the P drive letter, & then launch kodi from the same shorcut as last time, it shows the TV series info instead of the move info... which tells me that the -p switch is not working right.. and even though it creates the portable_data folder on the P: drive, it's still not trying to actually use it...
Anyone have any suggestions of what to check for or what logs to look at to help track this down?
Thanks in advance.
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ok... on taking a closer look at it, i found the issue... PBKAC problem... ie - I put /p instead of -p
now, one other question : I haven run across this yet, but if I am going from a 64bit install to a 32bit machine, is there anything special that I need to do besides installing the 32bit Kodi into a separate folder?
Can I copy the portable_data folder over from the 64bit install to the 32bit install folder and it work?
